Representation – Page 148 – Trigger Warning Database

Braised Pork by An Yu

Braised Pork by An Yu

One morning in autumn, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her Beijing apartment to find her husband – with whom she had been breakfasting barely an hour before – dead in the bathtub. Next to him, a piece of paper unfolds like the wings of a butterfly, and on it is an image that Jia Jia can’t forget.

Profoundly troubled by what she has seen, even while she is abruptly released from a marriage that had constrained her, Jia Jia embarks on a journey to discover the truth of the sketch… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted suicide

Can’t Resist Her by Kianna Alexander

Can’t Resist Her by Kianna Alexander

After years away from home, Summer Graves is back in Austin, Texas, to accept a new teaching position. Of all the changes to the old neighbourhood, the most dispiriting one is the slated demolition of the high school her grandmother founded. There’s no way she can let developers destroy her memories and her family legacy. But the challenge stirs memories of another kind.

On the architectural team revitalizing the neighbourhood, hometown girl Aiko Holt is all about progress… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Familial estrangement
Gentrification

A Lady Who Looks Good When She’s Crying by Dan Ackerman

A Lady Who Looks Good When She’s Crying by Dan Ackerman

Angels shouldn’t pal around with demons, especially not ones they’ve been sent to assassinate. They shouldn’t work with them or cook them dinner, or strike a deal with the Devil for them either. Sunshine probably isn’t a very good angel.

The demon in question is Felix Specter. He’s forgiven Sunshine for stabbing him all those years ago. He’s got a lot on his plate: a curse, his mental health, and a questionable love life. Finding out Sunshine owes the Devil a few favours doesn’t help… Read more.

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Panic attacks

The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman

The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman

When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city’s zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen “guests” hid inside the Zabinskis’ villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants—otters, a badger, hyena pups, lynxes.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Antisemitism & Nazism
World War Two (theme)

When We Collided by Emery Lord

When We Collided by Emery Lord

We are seventeen and shattered and still dancing. We have messy, throbbing hearts, and we are stronger than anyone could ever know…

Jonah never thought a girl like Vivi would come along. Vivi didn’t know Jonah would light up her world. Neither of them expected a summer like this…a summer that would rewrite their futures.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language
Bipolar Disorder
Depression
Panic attacks
Suicide discussed
Self harm mentioned
Weight loss discussed
Psychiatric hospitalisation
Death of a parent from a heart attack
Death of a relative from a car accident

Clarity by Loretta Lost

Clarity by Loretta Lost

Fiercely independent Helen Winters was born completely blind, but she vowed never to let her disability keep her down. She did not expect a traumatic event to devastate her life and force her to drop out of college. Disillusioned by the cruelty of people, Helen retreated from society to live by herself as a reclusive writer in the woods–where no one could ever hurt her again.

When a brilliant young doctor shows up on her doorstep, promising her that his new research can give her the ability to see for the first time, Helen stubbornly refuses… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape

Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff

Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff

The greatest games in Godsgrave’s history have ended with the most audacious murders in the history of the Itreyan Republic. Mia Corvere, gladiatii, escaped slave and infamous assassin, is on the run. Pursued by Blades of the Red Church and soldiers of the Luminatii legion, she may never escape the City of Bridges and Bones alive. Her mentor Mercurio is now in the clutches of her enemies. Her own family wishes her dead. And her nemesis, Consul Julius Scaeva, stands but a breath from total dominance over the Republic… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery & sex slavery
Sexual assault (groping)
Child sexual abuse mentioned
Suicide
Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a friend
Murder
Torture
Poisoning
Fire

Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she’s far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she’s no closer to ending the men who destroyed her familia; in fact, she’s told directly that Consul Scaeva is off-limits. But after a deadly confrontation with an old enemy, Mia’s suspicions about the Red Church’s true motives begin to grow.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Human trafficking
Attempted rape mentioned
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a sibling
Death of a child, off-page
Murder
Poisoning
Animal death

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.

Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Rape mentioned
Graphic blood & gore depiction
Death of a parent recounted
Death of a child, Murder
Torture
Poisoning
Animal death

The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara

The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara

There’s no place for a girl in Mary’s world. Not in the home of her mum, desperately drunk and poor. Not in the household of her wealthy granny, where no girl can be named an heir. And certainly not in the arms of Nat, her childhood love who never knew her for who she was. As a sailor aboard a Caribbean merchant ship, Mary’s livelihood—and her safety—depends on her ability to disguise her gender.

At least, that’s what she thinks is true. But then pirates attack the ship, and in the midst of the gang of cutthroats, Mary spots something… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language
Sexism
Homomisia
Transmisia
Attempted rape & sexual assault
Child abuse
Domestic violence
Alcoholism
Death of a friend
Murder
Gun violence
Explosion
Hunting mentioned